February 6, 2024... okay grandpa
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8338550bff96 commented on Why LLMs still have problems with OCR runpulse.com/blog/why-llm... · Posted by u/ritvikpandey21
The data is publicly available. Researchers could get it by scraping, this law says that companies must provide more convenient ways to access that public data.
This has fuck all to do with government overreach or access to private data.
How convenient does the law say that it has to be?
8338550bff96 commented on The Age of Agent Experience stytch.com/blog/the-age-o... · Posted by u/bobfunk
The popularity of agents that run from users' devices is going to push sites that don't have logins to add them and sites with logins to add tougher captchas.
There are no websites that I visit now that don't have a login that I would still visit if they suddenly started putting up captchas
8338550bff96 commented on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/Despegar
Why not. Their hegemony is used as a weapon of war, since 1998 when Microsoft was condemned-but-not-penalized for its monopoly. Make it costly for USA to spy & conquer.
Let us see how that works out for you
8338550bff96 commented on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/Despegar
It creates a nasty precedent doesn't it? If Apple can provide the UK government with foreign data, what's to stop Russia or China making them provide data on UK minister's phones, or more likely dissidents in exile? I can't see on what basis the government thinks they're going to get to be exceptional here?
At what point is this just extortionary cash grab from U.S. tech companies?
Want to fund some expensive grand program? Find a reason to fine U.S. companies.
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"Near a user" is also a big assumption. I'm ~200 miles to ORD and ~500 to IAD, but my ISP's peering & upstream arrangements mean Cloudflare serves my traffic 700 miles from DFW.
But, at the same time: Cloudflare isn't going to serve me a cache from Seattle, Manchester, or Tokyo. Pinning down an unknown Signal user to even a rough geographic location is an important bit of metadata that could combine to unmask an individual. Neat attack!
I doubt how useful it would be as an attack. As a single point of info it tells you next to nothing. As part of a composition of other indicators it would be the weak link in the chain probably just causing noise for the not un-likly scenario where the person you're targeting is using a VPN.
If it was any less specific we'd be talking about a deanonymization attack that outs whether or not a target is still on Earth.
8338550bff96 commented on UK's hardware talent is being wasted josef.cn/blog/uk-talent... · Posted by u/sebg
Do you have a metric, or not?
Do you have any sources that you would recommend? So far, you're throwing out "got a source for that?" left and right and when you get a source you've nothing to say.
Just curious if you have knowledge about this subject or if you're just trying to block the conversation from going in directions you don't like
8338550bff96 commented on HTML Is a Programming Language. Fight Me wired.com/story/html-is-a... · Posted by u/TheIronYuppie
The article seems to simply assume that only programming languages have value, then argue that since HTML has value, that it is a programming language.
EDIT: It's a very common logical confusion. Just because someone says "HTML is bad because it's not a programming language" but you think HTML is good doesn't mean that HTML is a programming language. The first person could just be wrong about there being a connection between badness and not being a programming language. It's a shame the entire article is written based on this error
I would say that HTML is a programming language of the Declarative programming language paradigm.
For SQL you are not instructing the computer what to do, you're describing the rules and structure of the result that you want in some coded language such that an execution engine can determine how to deliver the expected result.
For HTML you're not instructing the renderer what to do, you're describing the rules and structure of the result that you want in some coded language such that the rendering engine can determine how to deliver the expected result.
If I'm wrong, I would be very happy to be corrected because I've argued this for a long time with people who don't know what a programming language paradigm is - so I'd like to know if I'm mistaken.